Growing food from your apartment is possible! 🍍 Pineapples are one of the best crops you can grow on a balcony, and you can start one just by planting the top from a store-bought fruit... Golden grocery-store pineapples and sugarloaf pineapples both do great in pots, even with partial shade The second balcony-friendly crop is jaboticaba, also known as the Brazilian tree grape, and they fruit beautifully in containers Apartments don’t usually get good direct sun, and both jaboticaba and pineappl

ED goes over EWG’s the dozen fruits and vegetables that commonly contain pesticides as well as the clean 15 group of fruits and vegetables that you can rest easy knowing that they are typically clean. Dirty Dozen Spinach Strawberries Kale / Collard / Mustard Greens Grapes Peaches Cherries Nectarines Pears Apples Blackberries Blueberries Potatoes Clean Fifteen Pineapples Sweet Corn (fresh & frozen) Avocados Papaya Onions Sweet Peas (frozen) Asparagus Cabbage Watermelon Cauliflower Bananas Mangoes